By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE
The Middlebury Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) at its Nov. 4 meeting voted to continue a public hearing for a property subdivision at 269 Kissawaug Road.
Owner David Hennessy told commissioners he wanted to divide the 1.89-acre property into two lots as gifts to his adult daughters. He explained one lot would be conforming but the other lot would be nonconforming because of lot angles and the location of the roads, which he said was the hardship.
Commissioner Ken Long told him the second lot would be illegal because it took from open space, but suggested it might be possible for Hennessy to pay the town money in lieu of the open space so it could be purchased in a more useful location. Chairman David Alley recommended the hearing be kept open so Hennessy could prepare a more detailed map of the subdivision with driveway cuts, building locations and leach fields and get open space answers from the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
The next ZBA meeting will be Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. at Shepardson Community Center.
